Kaleidoscope It's Your Special Day

Good Morning Everyone

Alice here with my latest post.   Can't believe we are heading into August!  I set myself a challenge this week with the A6 Doily Kaleidoscope clear stamp set.  What should I do with it, as these stamps scare me a litte?  Well, I had great fun playing with this stamp set from Colourific.  I have several samples to show you over the next few weeks.   You will find this and all of the stamps used on the Colourific Website here.

Materials:

A6 Doily Kaleidoscope Clear Stamp Set
A6 Flowers Marquis Petal and Circular Clear Stamp set

6x6 White Card Blank

6.75 x 6.75 Black Mat

6.5 x 6.5 White Stamping Card

Copic Markers

CC Sparkle Pen

Gems

Foam Pads

• Stamped the Kaleidoscope with Memento Ink onto centre of 6.5 x 6.5 stamping card, then stamped around it with various stamps from the Marquis Petal and Circular stamps.
• Used Copics to colour everything everything in,  Then went over parts of it with the Sparkle Pen.
• Stamped out one of the Circle Stamps, fussy cut it out and mounted it onto centre of Kaleidoscope with a foam pad.
• Used a Greeting Stamp from my stash and made the banner for the bottom of the card.  This has been mounted with foam pads onto a scrap of black card to give the card some dimension.
• Finished off with some gems from my stash.

Hope you like it and thank you for looking.  Will be back again next week.

Foiled Blossom

Hi All

Alice here with yet another Monday Morning Blog Post.  I had fun doing this on Kraft Card with the A6 Blossom and Grow and the A6 Leaves from Colourific.  You will find all of their stamps on the Colourific Website here.

Materials Used:

A6 Blossom and Grow Stamps
A6 Leaves
6x6 Kraft Card
5.75 x 5.75 Glitter Card
5.5 x 5.5 Kraft Card
Off cuts of Kraft Card and Glitter Card for Banner
Scrap piece of Velum
Gold Embossing Powder
Wow Bonding Powder
Versa Mark Stamp Pad
Greeting
Gold Gems
Gold Brads

• I stamped the leaves onto the 5.5x5.5 square Kraft Card with Versa Mark Ink and embossed with Gold Embossing powder.  
• Blossom Flower was stamped onto Kraft Card and Embossed with Wow Bonding Powder and then fed through Foiling Machine.  
• Greeting was stamped onto velum and embossed with gold embossing powder.  The velum was torn to make it distressed. I made the banner with the scrap card and attached the velum sentiment with gold brads.
• I layered the card up and then fussy cut the Blossom Flower and attached with foam pads.

Thank you for looking, see you next time 

Take Care

Inked Blossom

Hi Everyone

Alice here.  Welcome to my blog post for today.  I have used the A5 Blossom and Grow Stamp set again.  You can find this and many more fabulous stamps on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set
A6 Borders Stamps
6x6 Card Blank
5.75 x 5.76 Light Blue Card
5.5 x 5.5 Pink Card
5.25 x 5.25 White Card
Black Embossing Powder
Black Versa fine Ink Pad
Blue and Pink Watercolours

• Matted and layered Light Blue and Pink cards onto with card blank
• Lightly sprayed the White Mat with Water and added pink and blue water colours.  Sprayed again with water and let paint run over the card.  Left to dry naturally.
• Stamped the Blossom onto the card and added the little stamps and stems at the bottom, then embossed with Black Powder.  Then added pink watercolour to the blossom head.
• Added the Border stamp along the top and left hand side.
• Stamped Blossom and Grow greeting in the bottom left hand corner.
• Finished off with 3 gems.

Thank you for looking

A Little Note To Say - A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A Little Note To Say - A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well and ready for another Monday morning!

A week or so ago, I found a new technique to make a wreath.  You can make your own Build a Wreath template by following tutorials on You Tube.  I knew this technique would work well with the Colourific A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set, and many more super stamps  by looking on the Colourific Website here

A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A6 Camper Van Stamp Set

A6 Border and Stamp Stamp Set

6 x 6 White Card

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.5 x 5.5 Green spotty mat

5 x 5 White Mat

Butterfly Die

Various coloured inks

• Inked the largest mat with sage green ink and the smaller one with lilac ink.  
• Used my stamping platform and my homemade template to make the wreath using various sizes of leaves and flowers.  Using a scalpel I carefully cut out the centre of the wreath.  
• Using the stamping platform, I stamped the border around the edge of the 6x6 card, then layered the largest mat onto the white card.  
• Stamped the sentiment onto white card, cut it out and inked the edges with lilac ink.  I shaped the sentiment using a bone folder and attached it through the wreath, then used foam pads to attach the wreath mat onto the green spotty mat and attached it to the card. 
• Finished off with a die cut butterfly which was inked with green and lilac inks. Finally added small pearls to the card and the centre of the butterfly.

I really liked this card and hope you do too.

Good Morning everyone,

How quickly are the weeks flying past.  My DT Blog for today is using the following stamp sets:-

A6 Flying Unicorn
A6 Season Text Background

I started by using a 6x6 blank card.  I cut a out a 5.75 square mat out of floral backing paper and attached it to card.  I stamped the Seasons Text Background and the Flying Unicorn onto a piece of white card and embossed it using sparkle embossing powder.  Using a guillotine I cut the background into small squares and matted them onto slightly larger pink squares, then attached them evenly to the card.  I used the same pink card to cut out a frame using some dies from my stash.  Using the larger of the 2 dies, I also cut out a piece of acetate and adhered it to the wrong side of the frame using red liner tape.  I also used this die to cut out a piece of contrasting paper to add to the back of the shaker.  To make the shaker piece, I used Pinflair Gel all the way round the frame, then added some sparkles to the centre of the frame, making sure they didn't stick to the gel.  I added the backing piece on top of the pinflair gel and left it to dry.  While the shaker was drying, I coloured the unicorn and also stamped some of the little flowers that come with the stamp set.  Once the shaker was dry, I attached the unicorn and its horn to the front of the shaker then glued it to the card. To finish off I stamped and embossed a  "Happy Birthday" sentiment, layered it onto pink card and attached to the card.  Hopefully you can see the shaker part a little better in this photograph.

A Little Note to Say

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well and ready for another Monday morning!

A week or so ago, I found a new technique to make a wreath.  You can make your own Build a Wreath template by following tutorials on You Tube.  I knew this technique would work well with the Colourific A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set, and many more super stamps  by looking on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A6 Camper Van Stamp Set

A6 Border and Stamp Stamp Set

6 x 6 White Card

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.5 x 5.5 Green spotty mat

5 x 5 White Mat

Butterfly Die

Various coloured inks

• Inked the largest mat with sage green ink and the smaller one with lilac ink.  
• Used my stamping platform and my homemade template to make the wreath using various sizes of leaves and flowers.  Using a scalpel I carefully cut out the centre of the wreath.  
• Using the stamping platform, I stamped the border around the edge of the 6x6 card, then layered the largest mat onto the white card.  
• Stamped the sentiment onto white card, cut it out and inked the edges with lilac ink.  I shaped the sentiment using a bone folder and attached it through the wreath, then used foam pads to attach the wreath mat onto the green spotty mat and attached it to the card. 
• Finished off with a die cut butterfly which was inked with green and lilac inks. Finally added small pearls to the card and the centre of the butterfly.

I really liked this card and hope you do too.

Zentangled Blossom

Good Morning, 

Alice here with my DT Card for today.  The open spaces in this card immediately made me think about the art of Zentangle.  I used the following Stamp Sets to create it:-

A6 Blossom and Grow 
A6 Border and Stems 
A6 Leaves

You can find them all here along with many other fabulous and versatile stamp sets. 

To make this I used a 6x6 blank card along with a 5.75 x 5.75 Black Layering Mat and a 5.5 x 5.5. white layer.  I used a stencil and a light grey ink pad to create a soft back ground.  I then stamped the 3 lined border all the way round.  I stamped each flower and several sizes of the solid leaves with black ink and embossed all of them.  I fussy cut out the flowers and used a black fine liner to create the Zen tangle patterns.  I used sticky pads and placed the flower diagonally across the front of the card, then placed the leaves where I thought they looked best.  I attached a crystal gem to the centre of each bloom then finished the card off with a greeting from my stash.

I like the finished card and hope you do too.  Thank you for looking.

See you next time

Alice xx